Chapter 0417

“Get in your places, please,” Nathan called from the bottom of the stage. Bridget hurried to take point beside him. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready,” Nicholas said. He had his script out too.

“Ready,” I echoed. My heart hammered in my chest as I skimmed the first line. This was going to be even worse than I thought.

“Begin!” Nathan called.

I braced myself. Nicholas was set to start off the scene.

His eyes were locked on the script. He didn’t speak right away.

“I said, begin!” Nathan said again.

Nicholas cleared his throat. When he looked up at me, his eyes were hard. “We have to end things between us,” he said.

God, I knew he was acting but the words still speared through me. He was just reading the

script, but my

was too real.

I had to.

asked. It was my line but it was also the question in

hard. “There’s someone

“Who?” I read.

doesn’t matter

it does.” I paused, tried to collect myself. Just keep reading. The sooner this

again. “Well, I don’t love

of our whatever–we–are might end. By nature of the contest, Nicholas would

there’s someone else.

to feel it back was

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to each other right now, nor have we fully

realized I was simply being a coward.

you was shattering my heart

then, as the tears began to

want comfort here. How could I ever accept it? We were on stage with the whole

had to finish

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